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861 Split the Lark—and you’ll find the Music— Bulb after Bulb, in Silver rolled— Scantilly dealt to the Summer Morning Saved for your Ear when Lutes be old. Loose the Flood—you shall find it patent— Gush after Gush, reserved for you— Scarlet Experiment! Sceptic Thomas! Now, do you doubt that your Bird was true?
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Split the Lark—and you’ll find the Music
You have no chance to rewrite your story There is no way to erase mistakes You can eclipse your shame with glory But your faults will always rise the stakes. You can’t escape your past and reputation They both will chase you to the day of doom And your tears shed in lamentation Will not dispel the reigning sceptic gloom. Do things of which you’ll never be ashamed Be kind. Be grateful, generous and honest Mean deeds will hurt you first, getting you defamed The noble ones will make of you the greatest.
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Mar 30, 2018
Mar 30, 2018 at 1:35 PM UTC
Mistakes
I remember the night my mother was stung by a scorpion. Ten hours of steady rain had driven him to crawl beneath a sack of rice. Parting with his poison - flash of diabolic tail in the dark room - he risked the rain again. The peasants came like swarms of flies and buzzed the name of God a hundred times to paralyse the Evil One. With candles and with lanterns throwing giant scorpion shadows on the mud-baked walls they searched for him: he was not found. They clicked their tongues. With every movement that the scorpion made his poison moved in Mother's blood, they said. May he sit still, they said May the sins of your previous birth be burned away tonight, they said. May your suffering decrease the misfortunes of your next birth, they said. May the sum of all evil balanced in this unreal world against the sum of good become diminished by your pain. May the poison purify your flesh of desire, and your spirit of ambition, they said, and they sat around on the floor with my mother in the centre, the peace of understanding on each face. More candles, more lanterns, more neighbours, more insects, and the endless rain. My mother twisted through and through, groaning on a mat. My father, sceptic, rationalist, trying every curse and blessing, powder, mixture, herb and hybrid. He even poured a little paraffin upon the bitten toe and put a match to it. I watched the flame feeding on my mother. I watched the holy man perform his rites to tame the poison with an incantation. After twenty hours it lost its sting. My mother only said Thank God the scorpion picked on me And spared my children.
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May 13, 2014
May 13, 2014 at 7:29 AM UTC
Night of the Scorpion by Nissim Ezekiel
I remember the night my mother was stung by a scorpion. Ten hours of steady rain had driven him to crawl beneath a sack of rice. Parting with his poison - flash of diabolic tail in the dark room - he risked the rain again. The peasants came like swarms of flies and buzzed the name of God a hundred times to paralyse the Evil One. With candles and with lanterns throwing giant scorpion shadows on the mud-baked walls they searched for him: he was not found. They clicked their tongues. With every movement that the scorpion made his poison moved in Mother's blood, they said. May he sit still, they said May the sins of your previous birth be burned away tonight, they said. May your suffering decrease the misfortunes of your next birth, they said. May the sum of all evil balanced in this unreal world against the sum of good become diminished by your pain. May the poison purify your flesh of desire, and your spirit of ambition, they said, and they sat around on the floor with my mother in the centre, the peace of understanding on each face. More candles, more lanterns, more neighbours, more insects, and the endless rain. My mother twisted through and through, groaning on a mat. My father, sceptic, rationalist, trying every curse and blessing, powder, mixture, herb and hybrid. He even poured a little paraffin upon the bitten toe and put a match to it. I watched the flame feeding on my mother. I watched the holy man perform his rites to tame the poison with an incantation. After twenty hours it lost its sting. My mother only said Thank God the scorpion picked on me And spared my children.
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•Don't you think you're standing too close #But you did not oppose •Cause your touch is so overwhelming It numbs my brain #So does your breath Falling on my chest •Maybe it's the lack of air inbetween That's building this tension #But this tension of our bond Won't even let distance do us apart •Who talks like that these days #I'm witnessing one, Between a boy and a girl of Laws Stuck in the wonderland of Words •That sounds more like the Never Never Land #Don't let your sceptic shield come inbetween Not tonight •So that you can make me fall hard and deep #So that I can kiss your wounds to heal •But the soar soul will bring it back How will you touch that #Through that Venus trap you have for lips •Your beard is no less of spikes Growing goosebumps all over my skin Running that chill across my spine #It's good our interactive field **** our brains At least for once our hearts can overtake •I'm such a submissive to your strong gentle hold #I'm so weakened at the sight of your rising-falling stole
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Jan 21, 2019
Jan 21, 2019 at 5:36 PM UTC
Coy
Meteoric Buick Slick ***** Frantic frenetic Majestic kick Chick shtick Shashlik Nicotinic stick Lick flick Hermeneutic heretic Magnetic rhetoric Hick logic Strategic Plastic music Tick click Bucolic Bardic Peptic druidic Rustic emetic Sceptic Polymeric quirk Sick trick Turmeric trimeric Septic ***** Wick crick Derrick
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Mar 4, 2010
Mar 4, 2010 at 12:27 AM UTC
Yorick
.. Violation seeps in through every pore The girl feels like a common ***** As men poke and **** with joy Manipulating their new favourite toy They sneak close enough to callously drool Then further, breaking the cardinal rule She feels an unwanted touch Then begins to cry, deeming it too much. .. With a purse brimming with cash And a covered sceptic rash The pretty woman walks casually Sheltering any notion of tragedy This was her first day of vacation From her new laid back vocation Though if a client was to approach She wasn't beyond reproach .. Horizontally gifted An archway lifted Customized displeasure In any kind of weather Morals slowly give way To the luxury of good pay Loneliness takes a back seat To those with a thing for feet. .... Stepped in late A darkened slate Crippled by fate And a desire to be great She felt like a clown On her long way down Then she lost her place uptown To the notion of a gown .. Poor girl She had quite the whirl Had five long years Which left a few souvenirs One being a harsh complexion and the other being a hollow reflection Now she has the rest of her life To wallow in the footsteps of a wife .. Soon her son would ask what she used to do? The mother would reply, to who? Ashamed she would pace Trying to save face Confused her son would leave As the woman ran off to heave Sick from the thought That one day she would be caught .. Sitting at lunch A bully prods on a hunch Displays an image Of his mother's visage A picture of an awkward pose Featuring the woman in no clothes Others began to taunt As the poor boy went gaunt .... Over the years some would knock on the door In a meagre attempt to score A run in with a ***** Who would take it on the floor Of course they'd all be turned away But the pain always seemed to stay It was shown in the light of day To be many needles in a sole piece of  hay
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Jul 6, 2013
Jul 6, 2013 at 1:17 AM UTC
Masoko Tanga
.. Violation seeps in through every pore The girl feels like a common ***** As men poke and **** with joy Manipulating their new favourite toy They sneak close enough to callously drool Then further, breaking the cardinal rule She feels an unwanted touch Then begins to cry, deeming it too much. .. With a purse brimming with cash And a covered sceptic rash The pretty woman walks casually Sheltering any notion of tragedy This was her first day of vacation From her new laid back vocation Though if a client was to approach She wasn't beyond reproach .. Horizontally gifted An archway lifted Customized displeasure In any kind of weather Morals slowly give way To the luxury of good pay Loneliness takes a back seat To those with a thing for feet. .... Stepped in late A darkened slate Crippled by fate And a desire to be great She felt like a clown On her long way down Then she lost her place uptown To the notion of a gown .. Poor girl She had quite the whirl Had five long years Which left a few souvenirs One being a harsh complexion and the other being a hollow reflection Now she has the rest of her life To wallow in the footsteps of a wife .. Soon her son would ask what she used to do? The mother would reply, to who? Ashamed she would pace Trying to save face Confused her son would leave As the woman ran off to heave Sick from the thought That one day she would be caught .. Sitting at lunch A bully prods on a hunch Displays an image Of his mother's visage A picture of an awkward pose Featuring the woman in no clothes Others began to taunt As the poor boy went gaunt .... Over the years some would knock on the door In a meagre attempt to score A run in with a ***** Who would take it on the floor Of course they'd all be turned away But the pain always seemed to stay It was shown in the light of day To be many needles in a sole piece of  hay
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MY FIRST & LAST LOVE LETTER This I declare as my first & last love letter Dedicated to the woman who looked at me and thought that I was better In a sea of many men with fragile hearts and broken dreams She chose to mend mine In the process of putting the pieces together, she used herself as the glue & now She is permanently a part of my new Picasso image of refined love. A kind heart that lacks not a kind word in moments when emotions overflow Poetry makes it easy for me to express these emotions 'Cause if I was an ordinary man I would have died in silence & left her seeking solace Jesus would have to come back & perform all his miracles in order to reach out to her heart & resurrect my soul. Enough about the riddle talk now let's go back to the love notes that make up this melody in my heart The woman with a smile that brings out the life in my soul She, the woman who invades my thoughts more than a germ invades a surface. I find myself humming love tunes & writing love poems at the thought of you Hoping to spend all my desired forevers with you If only this was to be true We all know that life has no guarantees So I have prepared & cleaned up a small room for disappointment because of you 'Cause this love thing we have going seems too good to be true Call me a sceptic but I've come to believe that your presence in my system is therapeutically septic You have injected me with life but you still remain the potential cause of my fate Explains why every time after I ****** in your presence at the dear end I end up in a faint Totally disconnected from existence A wonderfully dreadful experience A once in a lifetime moment that resulted in me writing you this love poem Which I have declared as the first & last love letter because I believe that you deserve better...   (to be continued)
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Jun 16, 2016
Jun 16, 2016 at 1:09 AM UTC
My FIRST & LAST LOVE LETTER
MY FIRST & LAST LOVE LETTER This I declare as my first & last love letter Dedicated to the woman who looked at me and thought that I was better In a sea of many men with fragile hearts and broken dreams She chose to mend mine In the process of putting the pieces together, she used herself as the glue & now She is permanently a part of my new Picasso image of refined love. A kind heart that lacks not a kind word in moments when emotions overflow Poetry makes it easy for me to express these emotions 'Cause if I was an ordinary man I would have died in silence & left her seeking solace Jesus would have to come back & perform all his miracles in order to reach out to her heart & resurrect my soul. Enough about the riddle talk now let's go back to the love notes that make up this melody in my heart The woman with a smile that brings out the life in my soul She, the woman who invades my thoughts more than a germ invades a surface. I find myself humming love tunes & writing love poems at the thought of you Hoping to spend all my desired forevers with you If only this was to be true We all know that life has no guarantees So I have prepared & cleaned up a small room for disappointment because of you 'Cause this love thing we have going seems too good to be true Call me a sceptic but I've come to believe that your presence in my system is therapeutically septic You have injected me with life but you still remain the potential cause of my fate Explains why every time after I ****** in your presence at the dear end I end up in a faint Totally disconnected from existence A wonderfully dreadful experience A once in a lifetime moment that resulted in me writing you this love poem Which I have declared as the first & last love letter because I believe that you deserve better...   (to be continued)
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Is humanism Utopian? You really have to think about it. Or is it rather more dystopian? No, then I think you’d never doubt it. It seems that disbelief is best. Humanism owes a debt to thinkers of the Enlightenment, although I haven’t paid it yet, I think of it as my entitlement to settle it at some behest. I very early cleared my mind of Kant, experiencing a vast relief, approaching his chef d’oeuvres extant; removing knowledge to allow belief; the opposite of what he had expressed. It occurred to me I ought to dig up (or should I say instead ex-hume?) what constitutes at least an egg-cup- full of wisdom that I might consume with non-platonic zest. But wondering how on earth to do so and thinking he might hold the key, I fixed my sights on Jean Jacques Rousseau and set sail for my destiny, while trying not to feel depressed. Voltaire’s voices loudly rang in deaf ears as did the Persian Letters of Montesquieu and failed to still my latent fears. And thus I felt no need to rescue Adam Smith (morality-obsessed). To put Descartes before the Horse- men of the Apocalypse War, famine, pestilence and worse. Who could guess it would eclipse my thought, wherefore I was oppressed. Or take the case of Denis Diderot a friend of Hume and others seedier. and one you might consider so rash as to produce an encyclopedia to get his knowledge off his chest. That precious quality of truth was Mary Ann’s# description of it. It would not take a Sherlock sleuth to simply thus produce a conviction of it: an elementary request. I cut my questing teeth on Russell. His secular logic had a profound effect and seemed to stir each red corpuscle inhabiting this fervid non-sect- arian but doubting breast. I later turned my eye on Dawkins, and his concern with my divine delusion. A sceptic whose inspiring squawkings validate my disillusion and emphasise an ill-starred quest. And so I felt the pointlessness of it. Progress is the best end for a man to see And belief simply produced less profit for reality’s dispelling of my fantasy. So, in the end, I acquiesced. #Mary Ann Evans, aka George Eliot, in Adam Bede
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Nov 16, 2014
Nov 16, 2014 at 10:21 AM UTC
NUMINOSITY (OR HUMANISM OWES A DEBT TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT)
Is humanism Utopian? You really have to think about it. Or is it rather more dystopian? No, then I think you’d never doubt it. It seems that disbelief is best. Humanism owes a debt to thinkers of the Enlightenment, although I haven’t paid it yet, I think of it as my entitlement to settle it at some behest. I very early cleared my mind of Kant, experiencing a vast relief, approaching his chef d’oeuvres extant; removing knowledge to allow belief; the opposite of what he had expressed. It occurred to me I ought to dig up (or should I say instead ex-hume?) what constitutes at least an egg-cup- full of wisdom that I might consume with non-platonic zest. But wondering how on earth to do so and thinking he might hold the key, I fixed my sights on Jean Jacques Rousseau and set sail for my destiny, while trying not to feel depressed. Voltaire’s voices loudly rang in deaf ears as did the Persian Letters of Montesquieu and failed to still my latent fears. And thus I felt no need to rescue Adam Smith (morality-obsessed). To put Descartes before the Horse- men of the Apocalypse War, famine, pestilence and worse. Who could guess it would eclipse my thought, wherefore I was oppressed. Or take the case of Denis Diderot a friend of Hume and others seedier. and one you might consider so rash as to produce an encyclopedia to get his knowledge off his chest. That precious quality of truth was Mary Ann’s# description of it. It would not take a Sherlock sleuth to simply thus produce a conviction of it: an elementary request. I cut my questing teeth on Russell. His secular logic had a profound effect and seemed to stir each red corpuscle inhabiting this fervid non-sect- arian but doubting breast. I later turned my eye on Dawkins, and his concern with my divine delusion. A sceptic whose inspiring squawkings validate my disillusion and emphasise an ill-starred quest. And so I felt the pointlessness of it. Progress is the best end for a man to see And belief simply produced less profit for reality’s dispelling of my fantasy. So, in the end, I acquiesced. #Mary Ann Evans, aka George Eliot, in Adam Bede
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with no maths for happy i divided my ' why? ' by Zero and fell in Love again like a sceptic with a wild falsehood masquerading as a plausible X = " WHY ? " but  we know not. better i should makes waves in the cavernous and strike wood with earnest flint, and cheapskates on golden ponds of ice unfathomed, mostly dark good with sternest glimpse, for pete's sake   and i could go on, twice as unaccounted, ghostly numb soot in the worm's mint sutures; an armour plate of Unreal numbers.... kites in the unfounded, frozen in the floating point of a Reason. or I could call You.... hmmmmm..... ?
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Apr 30, 2014
Apr 30, 2014 at 6:22 AM UTC
With No Maths For Happy
It was raining very torridly that day, The cold was so frigid here in Karnal. A pregnant lady was rushed to the hospital, The Antichrist was born that evening. Sceptic of old traditions the boy grew, Not feeling the justification of religion. Though I know about the good things in books, But still I am that irreligious man now. Always approving of the creator God, That almighty remains unquestionable. Not He Himself had dictated things to anybody, I denounce the need for money in faith.
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Feb 24, 2015
Feb 24, 2015 at 11:56 PM UTC
Two Days Before Christmas, 1990
When I hear you express an affection so warm, Ne’er think, my belov’d, that I do not believe; For your lip would the soul of suspicion disarm, And your eye beams a ray which can never deceive. Yet still, this fond ***** regrets, while adoring, That love, like the leaf, must fall into the sear, That Age will come on, when Remembrance, deploring, Contemplates the scenes of her youth, with a tear; That the time must arrive, when, no longer retaining Their auburn, those locks must wave thin to the breeze, When a few silver hairs of those tresses remaining, Prove nature a prey to decay and disease. Tis this, my belov’d, which spreads gloom o’er my features, Though I ne’er shall presume to arraign the decree Which God has proclaim’d as the fate of his creatures, In the death which one day will deprive you of me. Mistake not, sweet sceptic, the cause of emotion, No doubt can the mind of your lover invade; He worships each look with such faithful devotion, A smile can enchant, or a tear can dissuade. But as death, my belov’d, soon or late shall o’ertake us, And our ******* which alive with such sympathy glow, Will sleep in the grave, till the blast shall awake us, When calling the dead, in Earth’s ***** laid low. Oh! then let us drain, while we may, draughts of pleasure, Which from passion, like ours, must unceasingly flow; Let us pass round the cup of Love’s bliss in full measure, And quaff the contents as our nectar below.
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To Caroline (IV)
Margaret Murray, the one with the glasses. The psychic, the mystic, her tarot card classes. Told Sheila her mangoes​ were ready to eat. Told Mary her cousin'd be back on his feet. Beverley Spence was a sceptic, tough cookie. In seeing her fortune snapped up by the ****** Decided to tell her her ulcer would heal. It's better than sharing with friends what was real. Patty was eager to hear from her mother. Jessie bereft at the loss of her brother. Beatrice needed the skills of a healer. For Margaret saw death and she would not reveal her - True destiny seen in the cards at the clubby. Preventing a scene with her hard drinking hubby. £20 fortunes, no refunds, no worries. There's no better tarot than Margaret Murray's.
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May 10, 2017
May 10, 2017 at 1:18 PM UTC
The Fate of the Friends at the Social Club.
It's a long journey all in all Especially when you have to crawl Under knots of trees past the honey bees Or just the job of staying on that wooden road When it's so fast to erode And when we go into the marsh We can't move our feet Stuck in the mud But still it makes us complete Because we still have the memories And more friends than enemies Especially as we run And when it's begun A good feeling When we run through the forest No, I am not a conformist Just a soul living in the moment Not a criminal Not a sceptic or a poet So let's relax I will waste no more time Worrying about that crime It's really quite a silly thing To do   And I know what I mean Believe me I know it may seem Like a hopeless cause Full of holes and flaws But just remember   In the sea of happiness The only drop of tear Is the one that you yourself Did Make appear.
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Jun 24, 2014
Jun 24, 2014 at 7:11 AM UTC
Into the Marsh
I know,in the world of hope and optimism nobody is ready to accept the denial, And You are not an exception dear lady. But please take a sigh,let it go and open your palm,stretch out your hand and please try to understand that I can not melt in your arms. I am a Sceptic Sailor who gets afraid of both land and storm as he got his moments of bitterness from both these ends. So,I appreciate your love you bestowed upon me, but I cant rest upon your promised land, I need to keep sailing and there's so much to see. I hope one day you will understand this refusal I hope one day you will appreciate this denial
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Sep 15, 2013
Sep 15, 2013 at 2:20 PM UTC
Appreciate The Denial
Too much time we've spent apart it's like a splinter in my heart festering and going septic making my mind act like a sceptic does she doesnt she I'm I wrong if only I could bite my tongue I know these voices love their lies so why the tears wept from my eyes spend time with me and let me snuggle free my mind of this **** muggle give me peace and say you love me cause time apart is it's own insanity.
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Feb 9, 2013
Feb 9, 2013 at 8:16 PM UTC
No the Heart does not grow Fonder
Now we both caught ourselves staring I analyzed  what you were wearing My heart skipped a beat, the idea of love started preparing I approached from the side, asked if you had a guy, You replied with a "I'm just doing me" I took that as a lie Cause no woman walks around hoping she doesn't get surprised, by a good guy...who could mend her broken heart with care over time. A smile broke her defense, a kind gesture made her less tense. two and a half months later and it's undoubted happiness I wouldn't think any less, seems I finally found my princess, Who would cure all my scars, Unwind all my tangled stress But I guess.. the sayings true That a good thing is to good to actually be true, Her false happiness became clear, figment love easier to see through What happen? Use to the best thing I thought I never knew... I started becoming a sceptic My mind started thinking hectic I should've seen all the signs when you finish fights with "forget this" Cause that's what she was doing Forgetting all the issues I love you turned into silence, whatever's from I miss yous   The stars became detached The shapes no longer matched It is what it is, but do we both honestly believe that? Love becomes a war Affection into infection I caught your negativity Cured it, and learned a viral lesson. **That you don't truly know a person until you both break up Infatuated  with ones beauty until they finally remove the make up.** *Devil in disguise but your still an angel in my eyes I don't consider it being naive Some people just always have your heart, and never leave your mind.* -Dougie simps
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Jul 29, 2013
Jul 29, 2013 at 12:55 PM UTC
"A Broken Love Story"
Now we both caught ourselves staring I analyzed  what you were wearing My heart skipped a beat, the idea of love started preparing I approached from the side, asked if you had a guy, You replied with a "I'm just doing me" I took that as a lie Cause no woman walks around hoping she doesn't get surprised, by a good guy...who could mend her broken heart with care over time. A smile broke her defense, a kind gesture made her less tense. two and a half months later and it's undoubted happiness I wouldn't think any less, seems I finally found my princess, Who would cure all my scars, Unwind all my tangled stress But I guess.. the sayings true That a good thing is to good to actually be true, Her false happiness became clear, figment love easier to see through What happen? Use to the best thing I thought I never knew... I started becoming a sceptic My mind started thinking hectic I should've seen all the signs when you finish fights with "forget this" Cause that's what she was doing Forgetting all the issues I love you turned into silence, whatever's from I miss yous   The stars became detached The shapes no longer matched It is what it is, but do we both honestly believe that? Love becomes a war Affection into infection I caught your negativity Cured it, and learned a viral lesson. **That you don't truly know a person until you both break up Infatuated  with ones beauty until they finally remove the make up.** *Devil in disguise but your still an angel in my eyes I don't consider it being naive Some people just always have your heart, and never leave your mind.* -Dougie simps
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"Faith" is suffice for comfort If the abyss encroaches on thee But only the Surgeon prevails Making blind eyes see "Faith" deceives and says the pivot Of the universe is the human race When the crux of our existence Is lost somewhere in outer space "Faith" is impotent next to fact When Reason is apace But ignorance defends itself For fear of losing face "Faith" just means a belief Held uncritical, unthinkingly But I have become a sceptic Oh Science, inform me
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Nov 29, 2016
Nov 29, 2016 at 8:40 PM UTC
Beyond Belief
How cold and dark the chapel looked that day from the narrow dirt track. The overgrown graves adding to the gloom no longer did anyone pray. In this neglected forgotton medieval place here a friend disappeared without trace. This brought me to view this strange dwelling a despair came over me that second. That gut wrenching feeling consumed my being standing afraid I started to yelling. A spontaneous reaction that I could not stop around were fields filled with natures crop. Always the sceptic yet I felt I was not alone a light breeze began to blow. Why had I ventured to this solitary spot had I seen from inside a glow? Compulsion made me open the rusty gate what had happened to my mate A heavy atmosphere it was hard to breath was that footsteps I heard? Stopping to glance around nobody was there two horse riders came passed waving. Turning back I was at the solid wooden door on it marks as if made by a claw! Foreboding I wanted to get myself away something stopped my urge for flight. The answers I seeked must be inside I prayed the summer light turned into night. Dread within my soul was rising to it's height and the outcome of my plight. Pushing with hidden strength on the oak door it swung open in the blackness I stared. As my vision became more use to the dark two red eyes looked back and glared. A growling rasp echoed acoustically clear something was gnawing far too near. In my jacket pocket I had put a small torch taking it out I turned on the beam. There before me a wolf like creature stood neither moved then it shot by. Knowing this was the friend I'd been seeking running out I saw the full moon peaking. What I had seen was beyond my lifes beliefs distant howls filled me with terror. All I could do was just sit in the chapel until the new dawn once more arose. Never again did I see my life long friend as now my life has drawn to an end. The Foureyed Poet.
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Nov 6, 2010
Nov 6, 2010 at 1:34 PM UTC
The Chapel
How cold and dark the chapel looked that day from the narrow dirt track. The overgrown graves adding to the gloom no longer did anyone pray. In this neglected forgotton medieval place here a friend disappeared without trace. This brought me to view this strange dwelling a despair came over me that second. That gut wrenching feeling consumed my being standing afraid I started to yelling. A spontaneous reaction that I could not stop around were fields filled with natures crop. Always the sceptic yet I felt I was not alone a light breeze began to blow. Why had I ventured to this solitary spot had I seen from inside a glow? Compulsion made me open the rusty gate what had happened to my mate A heavy atmosphere it was hard to breath was that footsteps I heard? Stopping to glance around nobody was there two horse riders came passed waving. Turning back I was at the solid wooden door on it marks as if made by a claw! Foreboding I wanted to get myself away something stopped my urge for flight. The answers I seeked must be inside I prayed the summer light turned into night. Dread within my soul was rising to it's height and the outcome of my plight. Pushing with hidden strength on the oak door it swung open in the blackness I stared. As my vision became more use to the dark two red eyes looked back and glared. A growling rasp echoed acoustically clear something was gnawing far too near. In my jacket pocket I had put a small torch taking it out I turned on the beam. There before me a wolf like creature stood neither moved then it shot by. Knowing this was the friend I'd been seeking running out I saw the full moon peaking. What I had seen was beyond my lifes beliefs distant howls filled me with terror. All I could do was just sit in the chapel until the new dawn once more arose. Never again did I see my life long friend as now my life has drawn to an end. The Foureyed Poet.
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On a night shift the underground worker had to walk the tunnels. Along the empty track in the pitch black a torch his only guide. And a radio to report if anything wrong cautiously moving along. It was just before one am he started to walk down the ramp onto the line. The only sounds his footsteps on the track too nervous to look back. Halfway along his route saw a flickering light no work was planned that night! Approaching saw a workman crouching down busy on some unknown task. Calling out to enquire what he was doing the man stood and spoke. He said hello called in for an urgent repair made sense why he was there. An hour later on his return he had gone radioed to say all was well. Mentioned the worker he saw in the tunnel as on reflection thought it odd. The radio operator told him others had to as they had walked through! You had seen the ghost the voice said with glee possibly was hit by a train! Some sixty years ago while doing some repairs this came as a complete surprise. Never experienced anything like this before no longer a sceptic that's for sure! The Foureyed Poet.
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Jan 27, 2013
Jan 27, 2013 at 8:38 AM UTC
Walk The Underground!
*Dear Father Just because I am a girl doesn't mean I'm not human like you I am and special, maybe more special than you so first stop calling me names because I'm subject to my emotions first work and buy me the necessities, the sanitary pads before arguments about whether I smell during my periods spring first change the system,that which promotes my rights bring first abandon alcohol for it's the reason for the violence and fights first realise that I am my own person with my own dreams for we all can't be doctors, we all can't be engineers, we all can't flow with the streams first realise I hope to be first female President of this pearl first recognise that time and again my hair may need a little curl first remind my Aunt to give me the *** education after all educating me is educating a nation first treat mother like a human and not a slave first think like a man and act like a woman rather than a tsunami wave first mind about how I'm relating with my school teacher because now is the bridge that leads to my long awaited future first help sort out the political climate, it is too hot Help the country be what it should be instead of expecting me to be who I'm not first tell the insurgents and the government to put down arms for it seems they cannot see how terribly this war thing harms they can't see I'm ***** and bearing sceptic wounds which may never scar first tell the fat belly friend of yours that when I'm through with my studies I'll afford my own car first urge the concerned to put up good schools near so that I won't have to ride this far in the dark filled with fear first engage in advising my school to provide us with meals it will mean you finally understand that hunger kills first work your fingers to the bone, don't leave it for mother alone to provide the privilege of waking to comfortable beddings at dawn first start believing in me as you believe in my brothers rather than wallow in the mistakes of the forefathers first understand me before you start pointing fingers first get me a treated mosquito net and shoes to escape the jiggers first do your part and I promise I will do mine first be a father & friend then, I know everything will be fine*
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Mar 31, 2016
Mar 31, 2016 at 6:48 PM UTC
A LETTER TO MY FATHER
*Dear Father Just because I am a girl doesn't mean I'm not human like you I am and special, maybe more special than you so first stop calling me names because I'm subject to my emotions first work and buy me the necessities, the sanitary pads before arguments about whether I smell during my periods spring first change the system,that which promotes my rights bring first abandon alcohol for it's the reason for the violence and fights first realise that I am my own person with my own dreams for we all can't be doctors, we all can't be engineers, we all can't flow with the streams first realise I hope to be first female President of this pearl first recognise that time and again my hair may need a little curl first remind my Aunt to give me the *** education after all educating me is educating a nation first treat mother like a human and not a slave first think like a man and act like a woman rather than a tsunami wave first mind about how I'm relating with my school teacher because now is the bridge that leads to my long awaited future first help sort out the political climate, it is too hot Help the country be what it should be instead of expecting me to be who I'm not first tell the insurgents and the government to put down arms for it seems they cannot see how terribly this war thing harms they can't see I'm ***** and bearing sceptic wounds which may never scar first tell the fat belly friend of yours that when I'm through with my studies I'll afford my own car first urge the concerned to put up good schools near so that I won't have to ride this far in the dark filled with fear first engage in advising my school to provide us with meals it will mean you finally understand that hunger kills first work your fingers to the bone, don't leave it for mother alone to provide the privilege of waking to comfortable beddings at dawn first start believing in me as you believe in my brothers rather than wallow in the mistakes of the forefathers first understand me before you start pointing fingers first get me a treated mosquito net and shoes to escape the jiggers first do your part and I promise I will do mine first be a father & friend then, I know everything will be fine*
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*Can't function, I.... I Can taste the passion in her sweat. Light kisses. Confusion...I can taste the venom in her lipgloss, I feel the hesitation in her heart with every breath. She takes over control, not allowing my hands to explore her land Telling me to keep my eyes closed...placing her soul in my hand* **Blood pressure rises, rises like the pain of a fever As she diggs her nails into my skin, as she makes a sceptic out of a believer. Eyes closed so I can't read her. Was this all planned? Was I drugged with honesty? Am I just another victim, the captivation of a queen sized cell, holdin a lying man? my ink absorbs in her body, passionate writings forming on the wall. The sunrise, with goodbyes and kisses. The moment you know she'll never call.** *** was her weapon...small cuts from her seduction, as I attempt to break from these lust chains...Drained from toxic pleasure, infected, deceasing slow.. from a woman's lustful rage.* $.€.X||
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Mar 16, 2014
Mar 16, 2014 at 11:16 PM UTC
"If *** was a weapon.."
Half Batman half Robin, Houston we have a problem, and you don’t want no problem with me, I’m off balanced and on one, at the head of the table, Delilah’s on a Sunday, not willing but I am able, I guess we’ve all gotta go one day, but that day is not today, or tonight got two lights, one for the occasional cigarette, and one that’s a Brunette that burns bright, feeling cliche as fck but that’s okay because you know what, we are at the top of the pyramid so it only makes sense we’re high, hi I’m high, how are you, haven’t seen you in awhile might’ve been forever till now, then you appear like a ghost at a haunting and say “Boo!”, ooh, the things you do your new name’s Obsession, it’s ironic that you asked me to have a staring contest, since I’d confessed that I was already staring, had my eye on you as soon as you entered the room, I was perched in my throne at the head of the table, but I was thrown when you waltzed in like a Godsend, my God you’re the stuff of fairytales and fables, the only one I wanted to talk to, to in that whole venue, and we’re talking Delilah’s not a dive bar, so you know there were some quality options from which to choose, but we both knew it was a rap, as soon as you read the poem I’d wrote on that napkin, and yeah this is Hollywood, so yeah sometimes that kind of magic still happens, you gave me your number in front of your boyfriend, and didn’t even care so I didn’t either, because we’re True Lovers, we’re The Proof that can turn any sceptic into a True Believer, a combination of all things yet still totally unique, and yeah we’ve got our issues but hey we’ve all got our problems, so we come together like two phones tethered or better yet bare feet on a beach, and then we get ghost and disappear outta the reach of their nonsense, peace! ∆ Aaron LaLux ∆ October 8th, 2018 Hollywood, CA.
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Oct 9, 2018
Oct 9, 2018 at 1:44 AM UTC
Forever Till Now
Half Batman half Robin, Houston we have a problem, and you don’t want no problem with me, I’m off balanced and on one, at the head of the table, Delilah’s on a Sunday, not willing but I am able, I guess we’ve all gotta go one day, but that day is not today, or tonight got two lights, one for the occasional cigarette, and one that’s a Brunette that burns bright, feeling cliche as fck but that’s okay because you know what, we are at the top of the pyramid so it only makes sense we’re high, hi I’m high, how are you, haven’t seen you in awhile might’ve been forever till now, then you appear like a ghost at a haunting and say “Boo!”, ooh, the things you do your new name’s Obsession, it’s ironic that you asked me to have a staring contest, since I’d confessed that I was already staring, had my eye on you as soon as you entered the room, I was perched in my throne at the head of the table, but I was thrown when you waltzed in like a Godsend, my God you’re the stuff of fairytales and fables, the only one I wanted to talk to, to in that whole venue, and we’re talking Delilah’s not a dive bar, so you know there were some quality options from which to choose, but we both knew it was a rap, as soon as you read the poem I’d wrote on that napkin, and yeah this is Hollywood, so yeah sometimes that kind of magic still happens, you gave me your number in front of your boyfriend, and didn’t even care so I didn’t either, because we’re True Lovers, we’re The Proof that can turn any sceptic into a True Believer, a combination of all things yet still totally unique, and yeah we’ve got our issues but hey we’ve all got our problems, so we come together like two phones tethered or better yet bare feet on a beach, and then we get ghost and disappear outta the reach of their nonsense, peace! ∆ Aaron LaLux ∆ October 8th, 2018 Hollywood, CA.
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To be kissed by your lips, Every day and night As I open my eyes And as I fall asleep; Is something I crave. To lay in your arms, On bright sunny days, And even the stormiest of nights; Is something I dream of. But as sceptic as I am, I truly believe; That one of these days, You'll belong to me.
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Apr 9, 2016
Apr 9, 2016 at 3:22 AM UTC
Your Perfection
Under the celestial heavens, The sceptic, is so small, slight— In a dull room, filled with gloss, vacant, Unbelievers, hayseeds, who unbeknownst To themselves, are all in an incestuous love cult, A construct so vain, vacuous, of spineless comfort And smarmy snugness, a tribe of loose, yawning tripe, A spew of runny phlegms, a scheme of useless blue things, Festering.  What rational and clear clods, of beheadedness, Cluelessness, in clefts of lobotomy, plain and clearly sightless, Without seeing, they proclaim, all that their dull drivels, the dear Elders had once spoon fed to them, preached, said— now, how, They are sad, righteous and solemn in their preordained, oldness, Incongruous, indifferences and prejudices.  To have completely lost Any warm, decent, actual feelings for emotion is foreign— the stars, Do not align, the waters will not part, yet they are blind to the lies In themselves.  To have experienced— any real, beating, ****** Thing is beside the point, is beyond their ken, is not knowable, Yet, kowtow-able, quantifiable, not actual, but unbelievable They—the smug, slugs, under rugs, are dead, as dust, Under celestial skies, deep, darkness inside  .  .  .
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Feb 28, 2014
Feb 28, 2014 at 11:48 PM UTC
Dogma of Skeptics
*Down off a cliff The precipice of life A sceptic fall, where aspirations cannot survive Sunken emotions, lethal feelings skin deep As two streams overflow, the corners of farewell No goodbyes as this day, holds the promise of return To the times now long gone An old home built of sand New foundation found in rocks, under rivrrs of despair Cherish only dreams, in a fog of oneself Wake to the truth, as the bottom is in sight To escape the dark end, is a wonder to be felt To jump and not slip, our own will to renew As the flames within passion Spread ashes in the path That leads to an ocean Filled with hope and with courage*
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Sep 12, 2012
Sep 12, 2012 at 8:46 AM UTC
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